Keir Starmer committed on Sunday to upholding the two-child benefit cap in a move that has triggered cross-factional consternation in Labour ranks. The Labour leader said on Sunday that he was “not changing [the] policy”, which prevents parents from claiming child tax credit or universal credit for any third or subsequent child born after April
The Scottish Labour leader has come out against what he labelled the “heinous” two-child benefits cap, declaring he will lobby Sir Keir Starmer to scrap it. The two-child limit prevents parents from claiming child tax credit or universal credit for any third or subsequent child born after April 2017. » Read More
Who will win the battle of the bean counters? In the pessimistic, fiscally conscientious corner we have Rishi Sunak, former chancellor and prime minister. His opponent, desperate to assume the mantle of economic credibility, is Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer. Both refuse to concede ground on Britain’s finances as they extol, » Read More
Four in 10 voters think the Labour party’s Brexit policy is to rejoin the European Union, according to a new poll. A Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll found that 41 per cent of those surveyed believe Labour wants to take the UK back into the bloc. The numbers, » Read More
The prime minister has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “slavishly supporting” Just Stop Oil ahead of an emergency summit with major sporting bodies and police which he and his home secretary Suella Braverman are set to attend. The accusation, which came in an op-ed for The Sun newspaper, » Read More
Tumbleweeds roll through Portcullis House. Crickets chirp in an empty commons chamber. Downing Street is a dustbowl of ideas as ministers twiddle their thumbs around the cabinet table. And where’s Rishi Sunak? Not at the despatch box for prime minister’s questions, that’s for sure. On Tuesday, the House of Commons adjourned at 5.46 pm, » Read
Ahead of a major speech today, Sir Keir Starmer has claimed social mobility is “going backwards” under the Conservatives and that Labour in government would smash the “class ceiling” with education reform. The Labour leader this morning pledged to “break the link” between people’s circumstances when they are born and “where they end up”. » Read
The Times reported over the weekend that the government could overrule recommendations on public pay rises from the independent pay review bodies amid concerns higher wages could fuel rampant inflation. The reports, which followed news that the Bank of England had raised interest rates to 5 per cent in a shock move designed to tame
Rachel Reeves has backtracked on Labour’s flagship plan to spend £28 billion a year on new green jobs and technology. The shadow chancellor said this morning that the party would look to “ramp up” spending every year to the figure, as she blamed the new position on the financial position of the country and the
Labour announced its green energy spending plan two years ago at the party’s annual conference to an atmosphere of part shock, part fanfare. “I will be Britain’s first green chancellor”, Rachel Reeves declared as she unveiled proposals for a colossal investment in greener technology. She committed to “an additional £28bn of capital investment in our
